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pretty please with sugar on topExaggerated form of please or pretty please.Rate it:

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pretty please with a cherry on topSynonym of pretty please with sugar on topRate it:

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sugar glider or sugar bearA small gliding marsupial often kept as a pet. Looks like a rodent. Known for being carried in owners’ pockets and other concealed places.Rate it:

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a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go downAn otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253335833, page 372,One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, ISBN 0316736368, page 319,It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, ISBN 1564147045, page 11,If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.Rate it:

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sugar and spiceExcerpt from a common nursery rhyme "What are little girls made of?"Rate it:

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sugar coatedAlternative spelling of sugarcoated. (altered to seem better than it really is, made more attractive.)Rate it:

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sugar daddyReference to an older or elderly male adult seen in the company of a female much younger. The judgement of bystanders is; the female is mainly interested in the financial benefits to her lifestyle in this pairing:Rate it:

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sugar offTo reduce maple sap by boiling to make maple syrup, maple sugar or maple toffee.Rate it:

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sugar pillUsed other than as an idiom: see sugar, pill.Rate it:

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sugar pillA placebo medication.Rate it:

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sugar substituteA replacement for sugar.Rate it:

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pretty picturesImage supplements in a presentation: graphs, charts, etc.Rate it:

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Sitting PrettyTo be in great or beneficiary position, to be in favorable or lucky positionRate it:

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cost a pretty pennyTo be expensive.Rate it:

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just another pretty faceSomeone who is attractive, but not too distinguished.Rate it:

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hits pretty close to homehaving a direct personal effect on you.Rate it:

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make yourself prettyimprove the way you look i.e. get dressed (especially in something nicer than what you are already wearing), put on makeup, brush your hair, brush your teeth, etc; connotes that you are not pretty enough at this moment and that you should improve the way you look; an insult sometimes used intentionally (or unintentionally) to make someone feel inferiorRate it:

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not a pretty sightSomething visually unappealing, ranging from mildly unattractive to utterly disgusting in appearance.Rate it:

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not a pretty sightSomething disappointing, disquieting, disreputable, or otherwise unworthy of admiration.Rate it:

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not just a pretty faceSomeone who is more intelligent, talented, or emotionally complex than might be assumed.Rate it:

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pretty as a pictureVery pretty, very cuteRate it:

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pretty passAn unsatisfactory situation.Rate it:

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pretty pennyA considerable amount of money; a high price or a high income.Rate it:

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pretty PollyA phrase often said to, and sometimes by, parrotsRate it:

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pretty upto prettify, to make pretty or prettierRate it:

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sitting prettyIn a favorable situation, especially a situation in which one possesses an advantage.Rate it:

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sitting prettyHaving a comfortable or certain supply of money or resources.Rate it:

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please excuse my dear aunt sallyA common mnemonic that is used to help people remember the order of mathematical operations, in the PEMDAS order.Rate it:

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one moment, pleaseUsed to ask a person to wait a moment.Rate it:

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please turn leftWhen giving directions to a person, indicates that he or she should turn left.Rate it:

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could I see the menu, pleaseSaid in a restaurant, to ask for the menu.Rate it:

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please take it down a notch or two!Your objections are expressed in strong tones of violence!Rate it:

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bitch, pleaseWhen you want a bitch to shut up, you hold up your hand, turn away, and say “bitch, please” Similar to the saying “talk to the hand”Rate it:

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if you pleasepleaseRate it:

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man, pleaseUsually said to a man in response to something unbelievable.Rate it:

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please eat mom's delicious apple strudelsA common mnemonic that is used to help people remember the order of operations when calculating mathematical equations (² x / + -), in the PEMDAS order: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, SubtractionRate it:

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please help meA request for help.Rate it:

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please pass the saltplease pass the saltRate it:

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please repeat after meA request for the interlocutor to repeat what the speaker says next. Often used in language training.Rate it:

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please say that againUsed as request for the interlocutor to repeat what he or she said previously.Rate it:

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please sit downOffering a seat to somebody.Rate it:

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please speak more slowlyUsed to ask the interlocutor to speak more slowly.Rate it:

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please turn rightWhen giving directions to a person, indicates that he or she should turn right.Rate it:

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the bill, pleaseIndicates the speaker wishes to pay the bill.Rate it:

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two beers, pleaseIndicates the speaker wishes to buy two beers.Rate it:

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off the top of one's headWithout great thought or investigation; extemporaneous; natural; offhand.Rate it:

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on top of the worldDelighted; ecstatic; exceptionally pleased, happy, or satisfied.Rate it:

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top bananaThe principal comedian in a vaudeville or burlesque show.Rate it:

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top dogIn a competition, the one expected to win.Rate it:

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top of mindForemost in one's thoughts; of greatest concern or priority.Rate it:

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